Moccasin.



T. LUZENSKI. MOGCASIN.

APPLICATION FILED PBBJM, 1914,

1,102,279. Patented July 7, 1914.

. formation 'of a seam by terminating TEOFIL LUZENSKI; 0F BERLIN,

WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO r. LUZENSKI col, or BERLIN,

WISCONSIN, A COPARTNERSHIP CONSISTING 0F HERMAN MILLER, ALBERT WIL- COX, AND TEOFIL LUZENSKI.

\ Specification of Letters Patent.

MOCCASIN.

Patented July '7, 19141 Application filed February 24, 1914. Serial No. 820,384.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Tnorrn LuznNsxI, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of Berlin, in the county of Green Lake and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Moccasins, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a moccasin or the like with a seam which will not open up and admit water.

Heretofore, in moccasins, the like it has been customary to form the seam between the upper and the vamp by turning the edges of both outwardly and stitching through them, leaving an outwardly extending raw edge seam. This form of scam has the objection of opening at the points where the parts crease in the bending of the foot, the edges of the leather aping open between the stitches and subecting the stitches to a sawing action which wears through the thread to',increase the size of the opening.

The present invention contemplates the overlapping the edge of the vamp by means of the edge of the upper and stitching through the two thicknesses of the upper and. the edge of the vamp therebetween so that the line of meeting of the two pieces of leather is protected by the overlapping edge of the upper.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the moccasin andthe like as herein claimed and all e uivalents. Referring to the accompan ing raw" ings in which like characters 0 reference indicate the same parts in different views: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a moccasin constructed in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is a detail view thereof with parts sectioned; and, Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the moccasin showing theconstruction of theseam In these drawings 10 indicates the vamp and 11 the upper of the" moccasin, the edge ofthe vamp extending1 upwardly as heretot e upper fitting along the inner edge of the vamp,

even with the edge of the vamp the upper is made sufficiently large to turn over the edge of the vamp so as to overlap boot packs and. tion but instead of the same and extend downwardly therefrom and enable the line of stitching 12 to extend diagonally through two thicknesses of the upper as well as through the edge of the vamp. Thus, the u per at its edge is bent reversely to form a old into which the edge of the vamp is inserted and the stitching 12 passes through both parts of the fold and through the edge of the vamp inserted between them. The overlapping portion of the upper which extends downwardly around the outer edge of the seam forms a protecfor theseam, preventing access of water to the seam and materially strengthening the seam against its gaping between the stitches on the bending of the foot with the consequent wear on the thread of the seam.

It is found in practice that a seam constructed in accordance with this invention is more durableand waterproof than seams of the ordinary construction.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. A moccasin having a seam in which the upper is folded around the edge of the vamp and is held thereto b stitches passing through opposite sides 0 the fold of the upper and through the edge of the vamp therebetween.

2. A moccasin havin a seam in which the edge ofthe upper ben s upwardly and then downwardly to form a crease with the ed e of the vamp held between the bends of the the crease and a line of obupper forming I lique stitches passing through the upwardly bent portion and the downwardly bent portion of the edge of the up er and through the edge of the vamp there etween.

3. A moccasin having a scam in which the vamp has an upwardly extending edge and the upper TEOFIL LUZENSKI. Witnesses:

Gno. B; Hnamar, Tnoms German.

has its edge folded upwardly and then over the edge of the vamp and then 

